To me, meditation is when I'm seeing most clearly. It's my time to release back into myself, to feel the impressions of my recent actions, and dream the future into clearer focus. When I'm feeling overwhelmed, meditation brings me back to my confidence, breath by breath.

My promise to my patients and their families -- and to my family and to myself -- is to spend more time prescribing and living life, to honor the power of food, activity, rest and mindfulness to promote healing and prevent illness. I am fully and authentically committed to walking this walk.

Where are you focusing your attention? How would you benefit from more focus? Be inspired by my conversation with Elena Brower on "The Art of Attention."

I recently attended Omega's 2012 Being Yoga Conference Retreat at their beautiful Rhinebeck, N.Y. campus. This conference attracted me because I was interested in how the concept of "being yoga" can apply to personal transformation for the everyday person -- not just the avid yogi.

Lately I've been learning how to relate directly to my life rather than through my memories or expectations. I'm actively rooting out my expressions of anger by paying $1 for every doubting thought.

I love the methodology of Anusara yoga. Even though I resigned my certification those months ago as a means of separating from the aspects for which I don't stand, now I stand for forgiveness.

Can you begin to see how your ability to justify everything you have to say is exactly how you've trapped yourself into the "you" you aren't actually living up to?

Would you rather be an unconscious slave to every thought, circumstance and negativity, or a conscious servant to the highest, to your heart?

None of us are any ONE way. We choose who we are, moment to moment, day to day and year after year.

Over 10,000 yogis filled the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park yesterday evening. It was officially the world's largest registered yoga class...

Gratitude seems the most effective, healing state I've found in ten years of studious seeking. In a situation where we find ourselves complaining, the healing reaches into our hearts and everyone nearby.

When we are able to open ourselves through one attentive breath, we drop our resistances to our own grace as well as the grace of those around us and bring light to the moment.

The process of placing our attention on the doubt and fear - and learning what we need to see in order to bring balance to this life - is the process of awakening that brings us toward that evolution again and again.

Every time I take the time to open myself as a conduit for the healing of my own heart and the heart of the world, I am quietly uplifted and fully recharged.

Instead of trying to get something from your practice, use your yoga or your meditation to practice expressing how you see and value yourself.

Form and Function within yoga. Together, they are a complete practice. One without the other is a downright limiting of our potential -- and an incomplete class experience.

The take-home here a concept I've been studying for almost ten years. We have three centers in our bodies. When the activity of these three centers is balanced, we are living in our hearts.